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Dr. Dre Tops 'Forbes' ListOf Top- Earning MusiciansOf The Decade
Drake Admits He Has ‘No Desire’ To Forgive Pusha T Or Kanye West For Exposing His Son
Drake is not going to end his feud with Pusha T any time soon...or ever. “I have no desire to ever mend any- thing with that person,” Drake said on the Rap Radar podcast. “That situa- tion just went where it went. There’s no turning back.”
The feud between Drake and Pusha T took a wild turn in May 2018, when Pusha released his Drizzy diss track, “The Story of Adidon,” and told the world that the rapper secretly had a child with Sophie Brus- saux the year before. Drake
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stated that Kanye was the one who told him.
“I’ll say this — I tip my hat to the chess move,” Drake admitted. “It was a genius play in the game of chess and definitely warranted my first “loss” in the competitive sport of rapping. [It was] by choice, obviously, because I bowed out after realizing that the gap between us allowed him to drop a bomb on the world that became all anyone cared about.” Drake ex- plained that Pusha’s actual song didn’t impress him, but the content in it was some- thing he would never be able to one-up his nemesis on
Marking the end of another decade, Forbes has put to- gether a list of the top-earning musicians of the decade. Top- ping the list is Dr. Dre, who has amounted a staggering $950 million USD in the last 10 years.
Despite only releasing one album (Compton) back in 2015, the rapper, record pro- ducer, entrepreneur, record executive and audio engineer’s earning have come from his 20 percent stake in Beats, which was acquired by Apple in 2014 for $3 billion USD. Coming be- hind Dre is Taylor Swift at $825 million USD and Bey- oncé with $685 million USD amounted this decade. Ac- cording to Forbes, the earn- ings were measure by “looking at touring data from Pollstar, music consumption numbers from Nielsen and interviews with managers, agents and many of the stars themselves,” not accounting living expenses and taxes.
It is also interesting to note that if postmortem earnings were included in the list, Michael Jackson would take the number one spot with an estimated $2.37 billion USD total or his estate’s recently filed estimate of $1.7 billion USD that doesn’t count rein-
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vested royalties from his half of theSony/ATV publishing catalog.
1. Dr. Dre ($950 million USD)
2. Taylor Swift ($825 million USD)
3. Beyoncé ($685 million USD)
4. U2 ($675 million USD)
5. Diddy ($605 million USD)
6. Elton John ($565 mil- lion USD)
7. Jay-Z ($560 million USD)
8. Paul McCartney ($535 million USD)
9. Katy Perry ($530 mil- lion USD)
10. Lady Gaga ($500 mil- lion USD)
Young Thug Launches Online Shop For Long-Awaited SPIDER Brand
Young Thug, mere months removed from accu- rately asserting that he's never bricked an outfit in his entire life, has given fans something truly special to be thankful for this holiday sea- son.
On Dec. 25, Thugger alerted the world to the launch of the online shop for his long-teased SPIDER brand.
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At the time of this writing, the pieces displayed on the official SPIDER site included a black web hoodie for $175, a black denim jacket for $900, and black sweats for $150. The hoodie, however, appeared to be sold out. Get a glimpse at the first wave of Thugger's online SPIDER launch, which will see the debut of new items on a daily basis until the start of 2020.
Kanye West Drops Latest Album 'Jesus Is Born'
Kanye West gave his fans the ultimate holiday gift this Christmas with the re- lease of his new album, Jesus Is Born.
The musician’s latest work marks his tenth studio album and comes two months after October’s Jesus Is King, West’s gospel debut.
Without much fanfare — or even a caption — the 42- year-old rapper shared the album on Twitter on Wednesday, revealing the album cover to feature a cir-
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cle on top of a blue back-
ground of a calm ocean under sunny blue skies.
The 19-track album in- cludes songs with titles like “Count Your Blessings” and “Total Praise,” and also fea- tures new versions of “Ultra- light Beam” from his 2016 album The Life of Pablo and the gospel song “Balm in Gilead.” The artist for the album is listed as Sunday Service, West’s gospel choir.
West is the album’s exec- utive producer, Pitchfork re- ported.
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